GROVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does grove mean? 

• GROVE (noun)
  The noun GROVE has 2 senses:

1. a small growth of trees without underbrush

2. garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth

  Familiarity information: GROVE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GROVE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small growth of trees without underbrush

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("grove" is a kind of...):

forest; wood; woods (the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

grove; orchard; plantation; woodlet

Hypernyms ("grove" is a kind of...):

garden (a plot of ground where plants are cultivated)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "grove"):

apple orchard (a grove of apple trees)

lemon grove (a grove of lemon trees)

orange grove (grove of orange trees)

peach orchard (a grove of peach trees)

 Context examples 

It was the same with the groves of deserted bedsteads I peeped at, on my way to, and when I was in, my own bed.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The place was a small clearing in the center of a palm grove.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, thickening into a grove at the highest point.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was a fine autumn morning; the early sun shone serenely on embrowned groves and still green fields; advancing on to the lawn, I looked up and surveyed the front of the mansion.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

And why had she been so partial to that grove?

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Both stood in a suburb of the city, which was still country-like, with groves and lawns, large gardens, and quiet streets.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

His chest was like a barrel, and his forearms were the most powerful that I have ever seen, with deep groves between the smooth-swelling muscles like a piece of water-worn rock.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Or if we are, Miss Price will be so good as to tell him that he will find us near that knoll: the grove of oak on the knoll.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

This grove that was now so peaceful must then have rung with cries, I thought; and even with the thought I could believe I heard it ringing still.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

He also babbled incoherently of his mother, of sunny Southern California, and a home among the orange groves and flowers.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)